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Archive for June, 2010

How I went from committed lesbian to a happily married mother of four

Sunday, June 27th, 2010 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Jackie Clune, Mailonline As Chris Huhne leaves his wife for a mistress who was once in a gay partnership, JACKIE CLUNE talks candidly about her own emotional journey Looking at my ... Read more..

On Alice in Wonderland, the Episcopal Church, Richard Helmer, and Chastity

Sunday, June 27th, 2010 Posted in TEC, sex | Comments Off

By Kendall Harmon (Hat Tip: Barbara Gauthier) Being in the Episcopal Church these days means entering a vertiginous journey into the corruption of language. You see language which used to mean ... Read more..

Sacrificing Maternal and Infant Lives on the Altar of Abortion?

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Wesley J Smith, First Things I understand that there are many people who believe in the need to internationally fund abortion in destitute areas as a method of supporting equal ... Read more..

Episcopal Church proponents suffer legal setback in Fort Worth

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, TEC | Comments Off

FORT WORTH, Texas – On Friday, June 25, the Texas Second Court of Appeals granted the Diocese's Petition for Writ of Mandamus and instructed the 141st District Court to modify ... Read more..

The ACL protests Katharine Jefferts Schori’s visit to Australia

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Sydney Anglicans, TEC | Comments Off

From ACL Sydney The President of the Anglican Church League, the Rev Dr Mark Thompson, has issued this statement on behalf of the ACL’s Council: We note with profound sadness that the ... Read more..

ECUSA’s Strategy Goes Down in Flames in Fort Worth

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By A S Haley As predicted last September on this blog, the Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas has shot down the claims of ECUSA and its puppet ... Read more..

Issues in Human Sexuality: the bishops begin to wobble

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Doctrine, Homosexuality | Comments Off

[...] When a system — or a person — is under stress, collapse may be a long time coming, but when it comes, it tends to be abrupt rather than ... Read more..

Assisted suicide: how the new guidelines are applied

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Aiding or abetting another person’s death was made punishable by 14 years’ imprisonment in England and Wales under the 1961 Suicide Act. Prosecutions were rare, but the ... Read more..

Beyond Equal Rights

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, General Synod, Women Bishops | Comments Off

Lorna Ashworth, a lay member of General Synod, has published this short booklet, Beyond Equal Rights, on the issue of Equality and Justice, with special reference to the use likely ... Read more..

European Human Rights Court Rules Countries May Decide on Gay “Marriage” — for Now

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Civil Liberty, Civil Partnerships, Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News In a key ruling yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld an earlier decision by the Austrian Constitutional Court, saying that independent states are ... Read more..

10-Year-Old Boy Used as Grand Marshal of Arkansas Homosexual Fest

Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News A 10-year-old boy is being used as Grand Marshal of an Arkansas homosexual pride parade this weekend. The move has attracted opposition from pro-family leaders, who ... Read more..

To wed or not to wed? Not, say statistics

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Tom Whitehead, Telegraph People who never marry will outnumber wedded couples for the first time within a generation, an official report showed revealed yesterday The number of adults who do not ... Read more..

Methodists ‘live more than seven years longer than rest of population’

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Men belonging to the famously clean-living denomination live to the ripe old age of 83.9, research has found, compared with a national average of 77. For women ... Read more..

The Case Against Marriage, Courtesy of Newsweek

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler One essential task for the Christian Church is to rebuild and maintain a marriage culture — even when marriage itself no longer makes sense to so many around ... Read more..

Family swimming pool is a gay cruising hotspot

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

From Islington Gazette (Hat Tip Christian Institute) THE steam room at a family swimming pool has become a popular "cruising" area where gay men meet for "action". The room at Cally Pool, ... Read more..

Cameron protects budget for international abortions

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in economics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money will continue to fund abortions in developing countries, after David Cameron ordered that the Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) budget ... Read more..

Wayne Grudem Tour

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

In June Wayne Grudem will be in the UK to encourage biblical thinking about why and how Christians should speak out on moral issues. The tour comes at a time ... Read more..

It is still not too late: the evangelical option

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates, Book Of Common Prayer, Church of England, Global Anglican Future Conference, Women Bishops | Comments Off

By Mike Keulemans, New Directions Like so many other teenagers of my era, I was taught by my school history teacher that in the sixteenth century the ancient Church of our ... Read more..

Ten Percent of Adult Homosexuals in Brazil Have HIV: Study

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in AIDS, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSite News A new study by Brazil's Ministry of Health has revealed that in the 10 most populous cities of Brazil, the rate of HIV infection among ... Read more..

When diversity trumps truth, the Church has nothing to offer the poor.

Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Marriage, Poverty, TEC | Comments Off

By Chris Sugden, Evangelicals Now Anglicans on both sides of the homosexuality debate have concluded that the crisis is now behind us. The key decisions have been made both by TEC ... Read more..